Lucretia Mott
Name: Lucretia Mott
Birthday: January 3, 1793
Birth place: Nantucket , Massachusetts
Died on : November 11, 1880
Lucretia Mott started teaching at the age 15, earning only half the wages of a male teacher. Her family were Quakers, and in 1821 she became a Quaker minister. She and her husband James Mott became abolitionists and sheltered fugitive slaves in theri home.
In 1840, Mott attended the World Anti Slavery Convention in London. There , they refused to let her and other women delegates in. In responding, she started pledging for women's right. in 1848, Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton , organized the first women's rights convention in America. they sought resolutions demading increase rights for women, including better education , work opportunities and the right to vote. In 1848 she spoke widely for both women's rights and the abolishment of slavery. In 1850, she published a book named Discourse on Women, talking about the educational, economic and political restrictions on women. In 1866, Mott joined with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy stone to establish the American Equal Rights Association . She remaind active in the women's rights movement in her seventies and died in Abington in 1880.
Birthday: January 3, 1793
Birth place: Nantucket , Massachusetts
Died on : November 11, 1880
Lucretia Mott started teaching at the age 15, earning only half the wages of a male teacher. Her family were Quakers, and in 1821 she became a Quaker minister. She and her husband James Mott became abolitionists and sheltered fugitive slaves in theri home.
In 1840, Mott attended the World Anti Slavery Convention in London. There , they refused to let her and other women delegates in. In responding, she started pledging for women's right. in 1848, Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton , organized the first women's rights convention in America. they sought resolutions demading increase rights for women, including better education , work opportunities and the right to vote. In 1848 she spoke widely for both women's rights and the abolishment of slavery. In 1850, she published a book named Discourse on Women, talking about the educational, economic and political restrictions on women. In 1866, Mott joined with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy stone to establish the American Equal Rights Association . She remaind active in the women's rights movement in her seventies and died in Abington in 1880.
